![]() ![]() This is an enormous loss for the UPR community of someone who made significant contributions both to our campus and to the academic world at large, and who at the young age of 57 had much more to give. Pedreira maintained his optimism for the institution to which he devoted 22 years of his career. Throughout our recent struggles with hurricanes and budget cuts, Dr. That included Puerto Rico and the University of Puerto Rico. From Jazz, to fine cigars, to food, to studying Greek, Latin, and German in his spare time, he showed great passion for the things he loved. Pedreira was a beloved teacher, colleague and loyal friend known best for his smile and outgoing personality. He was a scholar in the truest sense of the word.īeyond his academic accomplishments, Dr. Pedreira was invited to join the Johnson Club, a select distinction reserved for only the most devoted scholars of Samuel Johnson’s work. After many years of painstaking research on Johnson’s Dictionary, Dr. He recently organized multiple panels on the poet Abraham Cowley for ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) where he delivered his work alongside other prominent Cowley scholars. He leaves behind a significant academic legacy, publishing on metaphor theory, lexicography, and poetics with such prestigious presses as Oxford University, Bucknell, and Wiley-Blackwell. He was deeply respected by his colleagues both for his ability to connect with his students as well as for his rigorous scholarship. Shakespeare and Film, Samuel Johnson, and John Milton. At UPR-RP he taught and created a variety of courses on British Literature, e.g. Mark Turnerīefore joining the University of Puerto Rico in 1999, he first taught as a visiting professor at both Chonbuk National University in South Korea and at Boston University. His doctoral dissertation, Samuel Johnson’s Rhetorical Art: Topical and Figurative Copia in the Age of Locke, was directed by some of the top scholars in his field: Dr. ![]() ![]() in Eighteenth-century British Literature and Rhetoric from the University of Maryland, College Park (1994). in Philosophy and Literature from Wheaton College (1985) and both an M.A. Pedreira had an impressive list of academic achievements. Mark Pedreira, Professor of the Department of English, College of Humanities.ĭr. It is with deep sadness that we inform the university community of the Río Piedras campus of the passing of Dr. ![]()
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